Florian Matusek talks to Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, a professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and research leader of the group ‘crime in context’ at the Netherlands Institute for Crime and Law Enforcement. Her research focuses on situational aspects of violence and conflict with particular focus on real-life interactions as they unfold in time and space. In this conversation, Marie talks about how combining video analytics with sociology helped the Dutch police during the Covid pandemic and how this combination of fields has the potential to solve the replication crisis.